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The World's Greatest Tag Team
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| The World's Greatest Tag Team | |
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 Shelton Benjamin (bottom) and Charlie Haas (top) in 2006 |
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| Tag team | |
| Members | Shelton Benjamin Charlie Haas |
| Name(s) | Team Angle The Best Damn Tag Team Period The (Self-Proclaimed) World's Greatest Tag Team The World's Greatest Tag Team |
| Heights | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) - Benjamin 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) - Haas |
| Combined weight | 497 lb (226 kg) |
| Debuted | December 26, 2002-March 24, 2004; December 11, 2006-present |
| Promotions | WWE |
The World's Greatest Tag Team is a heel professional wrestling tag team currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its RAW brand. The team consists of Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, who were captained by Kurt Angle, during which time they were known as Team Angle.
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The tag team made their debut on the December 26, 2002 edition of SmackDown. Paul Heyman introduced the team under the name Team Angle as a 'gift' to his top client Kurt Angle. The team would win the WWE Tag Team Championship on February 6, 2003 defeating Los Guerreros. May 18, 2003 they lost the titles to Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri at Judgment Day in a Ladder Match.
On June 12, 2003, Angle confronted Benjamin and Haas about a losing streak the group had been in for a couple of weeks and ended up firing them both from Team Angle.
Soon after the breakup Benjamin and Haas would refer to themselves as The Best Damn Tag Team Period (a reference to the Fox Sports Net show The Best Damn Sports Show Period) and then The Self-Proclaimed World's Greatest Tag Team, or The World's Greatest Tag Team for short, and went on to recapture the WWE Tag Team Championship from Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri on July 3, 2003 but lost them nearly a month later to Los Guerreros on September 18.
The group stayed together until March 22, 2004 when, during the Draft Lottery, Benjamin was drafted to the RAW brand thus breaking up The World's Greatest Tag Team. They two briefly reunited in the 2005 Royal Rumble match. Haas was kept on Smackdown! until his release on July 2005.
On April 17, 2006, Charlie Haas returned to WWE as part of the RAW brand, defeating his former tag team partner, Benjamin, the very same night. On the December 4, 2006 edition of RAW, after Benjamin pinned Super Crazy, Charlie Haas surprisingly entered the ring, berated Crazy and celebrated with a bewildered Benjamin. The next week, Shelton announced the World's Greatest Tag Team were officially back in a segment with Cryme Tyme, defeating The Highlanders later that night. They started feuding with Cryme Time, mainly losing to them, including during a tag team turmoil match at New Year's Revolution, but pinned Cryme Time and ended their undefeated streak on the January 29, 2007 edition of RAW.
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- WWE Tag Team Championship (2 times) - Haas and Benjamin
- During the time of Team Angle, their mentor Kurt Angle was the holder of the WWE Championship.
- Superkick (Benjamin), German suplex pin (Haas) combination
- Inverted atomic drop (Haas) followed by a superkick (Benjamin) followed by a jackknife pin (Haas)
- The World's Greatest Double Team / Star Spangled Stun Gun / Broken Arrow (Leapfrog body guillotine)
- Star Spangled Banner (Double arm drag over the knees)
- The World's Greatest Tag Team are one of the four teams to have held the WWE Tag Team Titles at least twice, with the others being Los Guerreros (Eddie & Chavo), The Basham Brothers (Doug & Danny), and MNM (Joey Mercury & Johnny Nitro, who have held it 3 times.)
- "Team Angle" has also been the name of two Survivor Series teams in WWE and one Lethal Lockdown team in TNA, led by Angle.
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- For the 2003 Survivor Series pay per view, the team consisted of Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Hardcore Holly, Bradshaw and John Cena.
- For the 2004 Survivor Series pay per view, the team consisted of Kurt Angle, Mark Jindrak, Luther Reigns and Carlito Caribbean Cool.
- With the exception of Carlito, this team was recognized as the second legitimate incarnation of Team Angle when they were together, Angle calling Reigns and Jindrak his "proteges" in very much the same way as the World's Greatest Tag Team.
- For the Lethal Lockdown team at the upcoming TNA Lockdown 2007 pay-per-view, the team consisting of Kurt Angle, Rhino, Samoa Joe and two members who are still yet to be announced.